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Questions tagged [vmware-vmdk]

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convert vmware snapshot to vdi

I found plenty of documentation on how to convert a .vmdk file to a .vdi (VirtualBox) file. But they all assume you don't use snapshots. -- Is there a way to convert the vmdk snapshots too?
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VMWare vmfs vs NFS datastore with vmdk?

I want to add a new harddisk to an existing VM and want the best performance possible. The new hard disk will exist on an NFS datastore. Currently I did the following: Created new vmdk on NFS datastore Created new lvm partition using fdisk Create…
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Data Store/Volume disconnecting. How to resume copy of VMDK?

I'm having an issue with my ESXi 4.1 hosts losing the datastore with FC SAN after a power outage. All 3 hosts disconnect so it's definitely a SAN issue. I've tried to resolve the issue on the SAN side with the SAN software support and Adaptec…
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Is it possible to use a disk image file built by vagrant to be used in vmware player/workstation?

Vagrant uses virtualbox for all its tasks. But it supports writing the vmware vmdk file format (virtualbox supports this). It seems to be possible to deploy those image files to EC2 and now I'm asking myself what does prevent it from running in a…
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OVF disk formats

I thought that VMs exported as OVF were supposed to be completely portable, but now I see there are difference disk formats I used the VMware ovf tool to export a VMX to OVF. The disk file created with the OVF is a VMDK. I want to import the VM…
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Best practice of expanding a linux partition in VMWare

What is the best practice in expanding a linux partition in VMWare? My example scenario would be: I have an /storage partition initially setup with 100GB. In the course of 6 months, I am required to add an additional 200GB to that partition. Is LVM…
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mounting VMDK images on opensolaris

I know that VMware ships a vmware-mount utility with its server 2 packages on Linux that allow you to mount a VMDK outside a vm and treat it as a normal filesystem mounted on the given mountpoint. Is there a method for accomplishing something…
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Issues with creating a snapshot

We have a strange issue when attempting to create a snapshot in one of our regional environments. We have 4 VMs, 2 of them have mulitple VMDKs spread onto different datastores. When a snapshot is created, all the VMDKs (except for the first), seem…
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VMWare-Mount not recognizing virtual disks

I have two disks as .vmdk files, and four as .vdi files. I can boot virtual machines on them with Sun xMV VirtualBox, and they work just fine. However, I want to mount them on my local computer so I can read some files off of them without starting a…
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I would like to know the best method for compressing and storing virtual machines

I have Zipped a virtual machine and it seems like there should be a better way to store my base copy. Looking for the best way to manage my VMware base images.
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Delta files not deleted

I found out that my VM is running with a snapshot which is not visible in the snapshot manager. I found out also that the machine is running on a delta file (probably an old snaphot) I see there are procedures to consolidate snapshots but what I…
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Populate Snapshot manager with missing snapshots or revert to one manually?

Is there a way to populate the Snapshot Manager with snapshots that are listed in the datastore but not under Manage Snapshots. Is there a way to either populate Manage Snapshots or using something like vmkfstools revert to the snapshot…
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Mapped VMDK no longer accessible - VMware ESX - recover data

At my company we have a virtual Windows 2012 R2 server running on VMware ESX. The server has 3 disks attached on different LUNs. (Disk 1 & 2 are on a smaller LUN containing multiple servers that is shared with other VMs) Disk 3 is on a separate 10TB…
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How to shrink a VMware virtual disk (vmdk)

I tried to shrink the size of a VMware virtual disk by doing what I do with AIM/EC2/Xen images: use sdelete -c to clear the empty space on a drive. However, for VMware, this actually expands the size of the drive. It went from 2.7 gig to 4 gig. So…
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How do I move files from an ESXi datastore onto a VM?

I uploaded two 15GB .WIM images onto my ESXi 6.0.0 datastore. I have a VM that I would like to image using those .WIM files from within a WinPE environment but can't access the files from within the VM (which does seem logical -- it would be a a…
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